Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-03-03
A Talk on Social Purity.
A QUAKER LADY ADDRESSES AN AUDIENCE AT wEsI.

CHAPEL
About thirty middle-aged ladies' seven gentle
men and a few boys and girls constituted the au-
dence which gathered at Wesley chapel last night
to hear Mrs Elizabeth L. ComStocks lecture on
'SOcal Purity under the auspices OF the Women.s
Christian Temperance union. Mrs. ComstOck is a
member OF the society OF Friends and affects the
plain quaker bonnet and dress. she Is small in
telligeR. appearing woman. apparently about sixty
years OF age, and wears her gray hair in SmoOt b
waves over broad, Intellectual forehead. Her
voice is pleasant and engaging, and her quiet
composed manner attracts the close attention OF
her audience
Mrs. ComstOck stepped forward with a small
pamphlet In her hand. 1.-THE subject Of my lee
te e lo-nlsnt said she rs one that lies near TO
the hearts OF US ALL fort concerns all that we hold
most dear on this earth But before continuing
the discussion OF the subject alluded to I would
Ike 10 call your attention 10 this little book Prov
cribs OI solomon the son Of David the King OF Is
rael- This volume she advised the mothers and
fathers TO buy and teach TO the ''dear boys and
girls so that they might not go asuray and for
ever blight their young lives. '.And this brings
Us TO the question, what Is 1t that makes these
women, these dreadful scarlet women who 90 forth
ia the night, and lay in wait upon the streets and
at the corners To entice and entrap our sons? TO
better Illustrate she told the sad story OF young
New England girl named Emily. The daugi-
ter OF wealthy and loving parents, she was sur
rounded by every comfort and luxury. She be-
came ILL., Her father sent for the family physician
but he was absent. However, his partner young
man, responded and undertook TO cure the girl
He did but he stole her heart and in few months
'tiCri- tHC .AfitW ttiJ she Ielt
town WITH Tie young doctor. She went with him
70 New York and there they lived In Il fashionable
ho'el, as man and wife, for four months. She,
meanwhile, falling in her efforts TO have her
wrongs rignted by marriage, began to lose her
vvacIty; her spirits fed; and ere the end of the
four months her health broke down ana he-sent
her 10 q hospital. He never returned.
Mrs. COnlstOck then told In a pathetic manner
the rest OF The sad storyhow the girl died in less
than four years mass OF human putreraction and
fith-and She warned the mothers, fathers and
daughters present TO be taught wisdom by the ter
cases similar 10 this" concluded Mrs ComstOck
Il can tell OF one man In this city who is idOliZed
by ali and held up as a shining light, but found
Two or his victims in a western city. One in the
Magdaltn hospital and the other In pOorh Olse -
The women OF the W. e. L. L. and the White
Cross Association not only propose 10 go into the
highways and byways TO search for and rescue
their fellow sisters, but they intend keeping track
100 OF the men. I'VE Will find out what men de-
oduch our sisters and daughters and infest these
denS OF lnlquity, and II they find their names pub
ilsiled IN The newspapers some day, IL will cause
the cessation OF this horrible state or things"